Chiang Kai-shek

The Red Scare was the result of a major fear within America. Americans felt the effects in their personal lives. Many supposed communists and communist sympathizers saw their whole life and their life works destroyed in front of their eyes such as the lost of friends or family members. It destroyed many families: brothers accused brothers, father accused sons. They were fired from their jobs. Friends stopped talking to their falsely accused friends. However the climate of fear and repression…

tensions that arose between Mao and Stalin throughout the late 1940s. The cultural and historical context that the Chinese Communists evoked when dealing with the Western powers had a deeper impact than the material aid and support offered to the Chiang Kai-shek regime, unless the Chinese Communists were treated as equals there could be no meaningful engagement with the United States and her allies. The Chinese, like the Soviets saw themselves as a revolutionary rather than an evolutionary…

Mao’s superb political wisdom, superior military thinking, and operational command made a great contribution towards the Chinese Red Army to achieve victory in the Long March. This statement, with supporting evidences presented in this essay will show that because of Mao’s great leadership during the Long March, helped the Chinese Red Army to survive. First, Mao led the successful Zunyi Meeting. Due to the wrong command by the previous leaders of the army (Li De and Bo GU), the relations between…

did that policy concede to the Soviets? The principles of the policy of containment outlined by Keenan’s “long telegram” were turned into action by the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, and eventually the support of Chiang Kai-shek in China and the Korean War. The first of these actions, the Truman Doctrine, which Truman laid out in his speech to Congress in 1947. Truman called on America to set aside its traditional non-interventionist stance and take a more…

How might an insider to a musical tradition hear differently from an outsider? An insider to a musical tradition hears it differently compare to an outsider. The insider tends to react to his or her own cultural music in ways that draw on a lifetime of consciously absorbed cultural knowledge and attitude while the outsider tries not to bring ethnocentrism into her or his interpretations. Hearing a musical an insider understood the music and she he can perform while an outsider hears and performs…

grievous war crimes are committed in these states yet the focus remains on African countries. In 1945 the United States President Harry S. Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chairman of the Chinese Nationalist Government Chiang Kai-shek issued the Potsdam Declaration, which outlined the terms of surrender of Japan as agreed upon at the Potsdam Conference, thereafter the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki all in the name of getting Japan to…

The origins of the Cold War are basically the United Staes against the Soviet Union, capitalism verse communism. The United States and the Soviet Union have ideological differences, they believing in running the government different ways. America believes in a democracy basically a free market government. On the other hand, Russians believe in communism basically a dictatorship. George Kennan is most famously known for the “Long Telegram”, he lives in russia at the time and sends a telegram back…

produce thousands more American and Allied casualties” In 1945, late July, it was declared that the Japanese must surrender. President Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and the Chairman of the Chinese National Government Chiang Kai-shek issued a declaration for peace, the Potsdam Declaration, on the 26th of July 1945 (“Hiroshima”), The United States faced the realization that Japan would not come to a peace agreement. President Truman…

as it was back then since there was over 15 communist countries such as Georgia and the Soviet Union. One war over communism was the Chinese Civil War.During the Chinese civil war on October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong captured nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek and made him reconsider joining the communist party. The communist and the Nationalist were two very different sides during the…

which was the main power base of the Nationalists. He became the head of propaganda department of the Nationalists, and edited the Political Weekly. Mao attended the Second Kuomintang Congress (Nationalist Party’s Congress) in January of 1926. Chiang Kai-shek, who became the leader of the Nationalist Party in 1925, wanted to get to get rid of the Soviet Union’s influence on his party, so he removed communists in important positions. Even though that happened in May, 1926, Mao stayed until…